CVE-2002-1257 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2002-1257?

CVE-2002-1257 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 1 Sep 2004. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Microsoft Virtual Machine (VM) up to and including build 5.0.3805 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by including a Java applet that invokes COM (Component Object Model) objects in a web site or an HTML mail.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-1257?

It affects 8 products.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows 2000 Terminal Services, Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 98se, Microsoft Windows Me and 2 more.

How do I fix CVE-2002-1257?

No fix has been published for CVE-2002-1257 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2002-1257 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2002-1257 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows 2000

• CVE-2008-4250 Microsoft Windows Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2010-0232 Microsoft Windows Kernel Exception Handler Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2009-1123 Microsoft Windows Improper Input Validation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2002-0367 Microsoft Windows Privilege Escalation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2010-0269 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0

All Microsoft Windows 2000 vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-vr5w-rmx2-g7r5.